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I’m surprised that the article does not even acknowledge Janiece Johnson, “Becoming a People of the Books: Toward an Understanding of Early Mormon Converts and the New Word of the Lord,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018): 1-43. Did anyone review the article prior to publication?

... until now many key events in Latter-day Saint history have surprisingly never been depicted to accurately represent important events of the historical record. Fanny and Joseph in the barn, ... The hard part of depicting Fanny and Joseph in the barn would be to include their discovery by Emma ro...

Your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Roof bathing was the live web cam of its time, I guess. It's not so clear that this led to David's downfall, either. Nathan rebuked David, David repented, God forgave him. His first child with Bathsheba died, but the next wa...

I recently came across a new book, titled Repicturing the Restoration , by Anthony Sweat. According to the book description: While existing artwork that portrays the Restoration is rich and beautiful, until now many key events in Latter-day Saint history have surprisingly never been depicted to accu...

It pleases me to report the Interpreter Foundation's expenses for the third quarter of 2020. Major expenses: $18,500 for web design, digital publication, and set-up; $11,850 for Book of Mormon Critical Text Project Volume III; $3,675.21 for subscription printing; and $2,838.15 for technical editing....

That particular Alma Smith was born in December 1831 . Thanks for that, Tom! I thought the poor lad had been killed when I was skimming the record. But he survived. That's good. (I corrected my previous post) I'm wondering whereof or why his parents named him, Alma. It may well have been influenced...

That particular Alma Smith was born in December 1831.

I recall Kevin Barney acknowledging the issue back in 2003 in " A More Responsible Critique ," The FARMS Review 15/1: [T]he name Alma, though rare, is attested as a male given name in New England and elsewhere prior to the appearance of the Book of Mormon, as the following examples show:54 Alma Smit...

Here is Carmack and Skousen's analysis of "break," as it appears in Ether 6:10: The NOL discussion under Mar argues that the Ether passage here refers to breaking the progress of people, not ships. Here the co-occurring archaic mar means ‘hinder, stop’, and it too refers to hindering or stopping the...

"Moving on over..." I recently spent $100 on two large volumes by Doctors Skousen and Carmack claiming, among other things, that a number of word uses, phrases, and expressions in the Book of Mormon disappeared from English one to three centuries prior to 1830. See The Nature of the Original Languag...